FileMonitor

FileMonitor

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

public abstract class FileMonitor : Object

Monitors a file or directory for changes.

To obtain a FileMonitor for a file or directory, use monitor, monitor_file, or monitor_directory.

To get informed about changes to the file or directory you are monitoring, connect to the changed signal. The signal will be emitted in the thread-default main context of the thread that the monitor was created in (though if the global default main context is blocked, this may cause notifications to be blocked even if the thread-default context is still running).

Namespace: GLib

Package: gio-2.0

Content:

Properties:

public bool cancelled { get; }
public MainContext context { construct; }
public int rate_limit { set; get; }

Creation methods:

protected FileMonitor ()

Methods:

public virtual bool cancel ()
Cancels a file monitor.
public void emit_event (File child, File other_file, FileMonitorEvent event_type)
Emits the changed signal if a change has taken place.
public bool is_cancelled ()
Returns whether the monitor is canceled.
public void set_rate_limit (int limit_msecs)
Sets the rate limit to which the this will report consecutive change events to the same file.

Signals:

public virtual signal void changed (File file, File? other_file, FileMonitorEvent event_type)
Emitted when file has been changed.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object